California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A!

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California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A!

Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A! U.S.A!” and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game. While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said “the incident is far from over.”

“We wanted to make sure [their actions weren't] racially motivated, and I told the kids I just want to be sensitive to the feelings of everybody,” Lipman said. “If we’re doing it for patriotism, that’s fine. But if we’re doing it for something else that’s racially motivated, I’m not going to allow that.”

But the students deny any racial element to their chants. “We’ve done it always,” one student said. “It’s something we do. It’s the same group of friends. We’re all very patriotic.” The four students gained support from their peers: More than 100 students gathered by the school’s flagpole the following morning to protest in patriotic clothing.

A short video of the incident is below:

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The battle over the American flag has reached a middle school art class in California’s Santa Rita School District where a student was told not to draw Old Glory because it was “offensive,” while another student was praised for drawing a picture of President Obama.

Tracy Hathaway, of Salinas, CA, told FOX News Radio her 13-year-old daughter was ordered to stop drawing the American flag and start another project at Gavilan View Middle School.

every time that I think our school system up here has issues I read about something that happens in the States and I quickly forget our problems. Who hired that teacher? YOU'RE TEACHING KIDS - leave your stupid political opinions at home.

The first story I can actually understand where the school is coming from. I wasn't a teenager all that long ago, and I remember how we used to try and pull stuff that was not exactly kosher but fell within the rules.

How many schools do the "push it" chant? Same idea.

On the other hand, when you allow illegal immigrants into the school system, you almost have a legitimate case for that chant.

Fucking fuck these motherfuckers, who gives a shit if it's racist. I hope there is a war inside our country soon because I miss America...the America that it actually meant something special to be a citizen of... not this homogenized no score keeping, gays are normal, everybody should make the same pay, everyone should have healthcare, muslims building mosques on sacred ground, illegal immigrants getting anything but shot in the fucking face piece of shit that it is being turned into by the fucking lefties. The fleecing of American citizenship is damned right.

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Fucking fuck these motherfuckers, who gives a shit if it's racist. I hope there is a war inside our country soon because I miss America...the America that it actually meant something special to be a citizen of... not this homogenized no score keeping, gays are normal, everybody should make the same pay, everyone should have healthcare, muslims building mosques on sacred ground, illegal immigrants getting anything but shot in the fucking face piece of shit that it is being turned into by the fucking lefties. The fleecing of American citizenship is damned right.

I'm gonna be devils advocate here and ask the question why would they even chant USA, USA. It's not like it was the Olympics or a national team game vs a foreign country.

Makes no sense to me. You're in the US. Two US high school teams are playing. How is a USA chant supposed to rally the team or fire them up? I'm pretty sure both teams players know where they are and what citizenship they hold.

There is nothing wrong with Patriotism but this doesn't make sense to me. I don't hear any USA chants at NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL games either.

Last edited by MF5150; 02.14.13 at 06:06 PM.

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every time that I think our school system up here has issues I read about something that happens in the States and I quickly forget our problems. Who hired that teacher? YOU'RE TEACHING KIDS - leave your stupid political opinions at home.

I never ran into anything like this. All of my teachers seemed like stable people. It's amazing how far schools have fallen in the last decade.

I'm not big on patriotism, but suspending kids over it? Hopefully there is more to the story.

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